Democrats abandon proposed assault weapons ban

Published time: March 19, 2013 23:07

With the US Senate set to mull new gun legislation this April, a proposed ban on assault weapons will no longer be up for debate, the proposal's sponsors say. As a result, the ban is almost surely off the table for inclusion in a new law.

California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, who promoted the…

Soda kills 180, 000 people a year

Published time: March 20, 2013 18:59

Your sweet tooth could be deadly: researchers have found that 25,000 people died from drinking sugary beverages in the US in 2010 – and 180,000 have died worldwide. The data presents new evidence on the public health hazard triggered by artificial drinks.

Nearly half of all Americans, 48 percent, last year…

Posted by Guy Razer on March 20, 2013 at 9:00am

THIS ENTRIE SITUATION IS HARD BROKE!!



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THIS IS CALLED SUBSERVIENCE TO A FOREIGN POWER, AND…

18 March 2013

Roger Waters, British rock…

Justin Thomas and his colleagues at the GRASP Lab have produced an �avian-inspired� claw drone that mimics the way an eagle uses its talons to grab a fish out of the ocean.



A video clip of the drone shows the UAV swooping down at high speed to snatch an object using its 3D printed mechanical claw. By mimicking how a bald eagle sweeps its legs and claws backwards to aerodynamically close in on its prey without the need to slow down, the drone is able to grasp a stationary object…

Cyprus is a beta test. The banksters are trying to commit bank robbery in broad daylight, and they are eager to see if the rest of the world will let them get away with it. 



Cyprus was probably chosen because it is very small (therefore nobody will care too much about it) and because there is a lot of foreign (i.e. Russian) money parked there. 



The IMF and the EU could have easily bailed out Cyprus without any trouble whatsoever, but they purposely decided not to do…

New electronic tattoos could help monitor health during normal daily activities.

Taking advantage of recent advances in flexible electronics, researchers have devised a way to “print” devices directly onto the skin so people can wear them for an extended period while performing normal daily activities. Such systems could be used to track health and monitor healing near the skin’s surface, as in the case of surgical wounds.

Skin…

Passenger pigeons once darkened the skies over the eastern United States. Huge flocks would roost on chestnut trees, their weight snapping off branches. By 1914, though, humans had hunted the bird to extinction.

Now, a project to reanimate the pigeon using genetic engineering is drawing new attention to the question of “de-extinction,” or whether biotechnology can help conserve rare animals and even restore others that dissapeared eons ago.

The passenger pigeon effort, known as…

This is THE VIDEO to share with your many friends that keep saying 'Conspiracy Theory' about DHS and their massive purchase of ammunition.

Here it is live. homeland security asking for money and recources to fight up to 80 percent of the population. he finishes with and when done a new bill of rights to be drafted by classified. This is some scary Shit. Wake up people. Do yourself a favor and watch this.…

Inside shot of a Chemtrail Airplane?

Chemtrail Tanks?  Some argue they are simply "Ballast Barrells", yet they are clearly tanks and hardly represent the inner seating struture of a commercial passenger aircraft, though it is…

Married PCSO found guilty of using police database to strike up affairs with four vulnerable women on uniformed patrol 

• He used the police database to find phone numbers and addresses of women on his beat
  
  
• Defence lawyer had said that if politicians get away with affairs he should too
  
  
• Also said that if having tea is not criminal then consensual sex isn't…

NYPD's stop-and-frisk goes on trial

Published time: March 18, 2013 18:43

A trial challenging the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy kicked off Monday. As the department argues the policy’s importance in stopping crime, opponents continue to challenge its constitutionality.

The class-action lawsuit, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, is meant to “end racially…

Syrian opposition elects US-educated tech exec as interim PM

Published time: March 18, 2013 23:56 

Edited time: March 19, 2013 03:04

The Syrian opposition coalition has elected Western-educated former businessman and US citizen Ghassan Hitto to oversee a provisional government for Syria's rebel-held areas in a vote in Istanbul on Tuesday.

Hitto received 35…

Rare 1940's Color Pics of America back when it was America!

Baseball, Chevrolet, Family Owned Shops, Unlocked Doors, Honor, Pride  

(Thanks Lib of Cong Flickr gallery)…

Everyone in politics bends the truth.  But some do it more than others.  Here is a list of five memes gun-control advocates continue to propagate despite their dubious validity.   

1.  40 Percent of Guns are Sold without Background Checks

From New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to President Obama to Vice President Biden, they’ve all…

Another Wall Street investigation. Another trove of e-mails, instant messages and telephone conversations capturing executives, bankers and traders discussing their compromising positions.

First, it was the evidence that depicted questionable behavior at Barclays, UBS and the Royal Bank of Scotland, where traders discussed their rate-rigging activities. Then it was the Justice Department’s complaint against Standard & Poor’s over toxic mortgage securities, which included an…

JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s biggest bank, ignored internal controls and manipulated documents as it racked up trading losses last year, while its influential chief executive, Jamie Dimon, briefly withheld some information from regulators, a new Senate report says.

The findings by the Congressional investigators shed new light on the multibillion-dollar trading blunder, which has claimed the jobs of several top executives and prompted an inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.…